Art, Power and Modernity English Art Institutions, 1750-1950 |
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| Author:
| Fyfe, Gordon |
| Series title: | Contemporary Issues in Museum Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-567-15198-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | AUD $215.99 |
Book Description:
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Hwo did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernisation of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism of engravers and how their claim to be artists is an important and negkected aspect of the nineteenth-century art world; and how the aesthetic dispute over the Chantrey Bequest epitomized...
More DescriptionHwo did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernisation of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism of engravers and how their claim to be artists is an important and negkected aspect of the nineteenth-century art world; and how the aesthetic dispute over the Chantrey Bequest epitomized conflicts of taste, cultural independence, and interdependence between opposed art institutions and the Treasury.